Ink-bottle



(No Model.)

N JOHNSON.

INK BOTTLE.

UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

NELSON JOHNSON, OF KNOXVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

INK-BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,001, dated January 3, 1888.

Application filed March 30, 1887. Serial No. 232,931.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, NELSON JOHNSON, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Knox- V ville, in the county of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ink-Bottles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference refer to like parts throughout the several figures.

The objects of my invention are to provide means for holding the pen toprevent it from rolling around when not in use, to facilitate the pouring of liquid. from the bottle, and to afford means for securing the stopper and corkscrew in place when the bottle is to be shipped.

To these ends my invention consists, first, in providing the bottle with suitable grooves or notches across its mouth; second, in forin ing similar grooves or channels in the stopper, which grooves or channels will, when the stopper is properly inserted, correspond to those in the mouth of the bottle; and, third, in forming a corkscrew with a semi-cylindrical handle, which is so hinged to the screw as to be easily turned down upon the stopper (when inserted therein) with the concavity upward, and which is perforated at or near its upper end for the passage of a wire or cord when the bottle is closed for shipment.

In the said drawings, Figure I is a perspective view ofa bottle having myimprovements, a pen being shown supported thereon. I Fig. II is a vertical section through the line 2 2, Fig. I. Figs. III and IV show modified forms of grooved bottle-mouths, showing, also, a supplementary groove to facilitate the pouring of liquid. Figs. Vand VI show modified forms of the hinged corkscrew. Fig. VII shows a bottle and attachments ready for shipment. Fig. VIII shows the stopper grooved as when inserted in the bottle, Fig. I.

A A represent the grooves as formed in an ordinary ink-bottle, and in which the pen may be laid when the bottle is open.

B is the stopper,'of any suitable material, having grooves bl), similar in size and relative position to those in the bottle-mouth, together with which they form a cradle or receptacle for the pen when the stopper is properly in- I serted.

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0 is the corkscrew having handle grooved and perforated, or perforated only, the handle being designated by c and the perforation by c, said handle beinghinged at c. The hinge 0 may be made by forming a slot in the end of the screw portion of the corkscrew and securing therein the flattened end of the handle,

which construction is shown in Fig. V; or it may be formed by slotting the semi-cylindrical handle and securing therein the flattened upper end of the screw by means of a pin passed section of Fig. I (Fig. II) is merely intended to show the relative positions of the bottlemouth, stopper, and corkscrew when the two latter are in place and the handle of the lastnamed is turned down in horizontal position. As shown in Figs. III and IV, I do not limit myself to any particular number of grooves or to the positionv of same, for there may be two grooves formed at right angles, as in Fig. I; or I may use one wide groove equal in width to the diameter of the bottle-mouth, as shown in Figs. III and IV, and this one wide groove may be extended by forming on diametricallyopposite sides of the bottle-mouthprojections or lips d d, Fig. III, in which figure are also shown supplementary grooves a, narrower than groove A, and therefore better adapted for pouring liquid from -the bottle. The eorkscrew is made with a hinged handle, and this handle formed with an eye or perforation and semi-cylindrical for the purposes hereinbefore described, and these features I employ separately or all together, as shown in Figs. V and VI, respectively.

In Fig. VII is shown a bottle and attachments bound and ready for shipment, being tied with a wire or cord, as is frequently done in shipping bottles, &c., and this representation is'designed to show the adaptability of my device for packing in the above-described manner, the cord being passed through the eye of the corkscrew-handle, as well as through the grooves in the stopper and bottle, and then tied around the neck of the bottle in the custoinary manner.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In combination with a bottle having one or more transverse grooves in its mouth, a stopper having similar grooves so arranged as to correspond in position with those in the bottle when the stopper is inserted, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In combination with a bottle having one or moretransverse groovesin its mouth, a stopper having grooves similar to and in such position as to correspond with those of the bottle-mouth when said stopper is inserted, and a corkscrew having a hinged handle perforated for the passage of a cord therethrough, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination ofa bottlehaving grooves, substantially as described, with a similarlygrooved stopper, and a corkscrew having a hinged handle, said handle being semi-cylindrieal, and having an eye or perforation for the passage of a cord therethrough, as and for the purposes set forth.

4. A bottle having formed transversely in its month one or more main grooves, and one or more supplementary grooves in said main grooves, as herein shown, and for the pur poses set forth.

5. In a bottle for ink, the eombinatiomwith the projecting lips d, of a groove, A, and a supplementary groove, a, for the purposes set forth.

6. Ina bottle for ink, the combination of the lips or projections d with a groove, A, as and for the purposes set forth.

NELSON JOHNSON.

\Vitnesses:

F. G. BABOOCK, W. W. DUnuAn. 

